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	NOTICE OF THE NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND REFORM COMMISSION ON OVERALL IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SYSTEM OF PUBLIC NOTICE ON CHARGES

	(No. 297 [2004] of the National Development and Reform Commission February 19, 2004)


SUBJECT : SYSTEM OF PUBLIC NOTICE ON CHARGES
ISSUING DEPARTMENT : THE NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND REFORM COMMISSION
ISSUE DATE : 02/19/2004
IMPLEMENT DATE : 02/19/2004
LENGTH : 1,067 words
TEXT :

Since the implementation of the system of public notice on prices and charges involving agriculture nationwide in 2001, outstanding achievements have been made in the work of public notice on prices and charges involving agriculture. In order to further enlarge the achievements of public notice on charges, improve the transparency of charging, strengthen supervision, put an end to various arbitrary charges, and earnestly relieve the burden of enterprises and the mass people, this Commission decides to implement the system of public notice in towns and villages entirely, and hereby makes the following notice on the relevant issues concerned:

I. Fully understanding the great significance of the overall implementation of the system of public notice on charges. The overall implementation of the system of public notice on charges is not only an important system for improving the transparency of the charging system and perfecting the social supervision mechanism, but also an effective method for reorganizing and regulating the order of market economy, optimizing the environment of economic development and promoting the economic development. The competent price departments at all levels shall, from the height of practicing the important thought of "Three Represents", fully understand the great significance of overall implementation of the system of public notice on charges, and take effective measures to spread the system from the rural areas to the cities, and further enlarge the coverage of the public notice on charges, so as to bring into play the role of transferring policies to the mass people earnestly, and strengthen and improve the supervision by public opinion.

II. Strengthening guidance to the work of public notice on charges. The competent price departments at all levels shall strengthen guidance to the work of public notice on charges. The main leaders shall take command in person, and report to the local governments in time, so as to gain the recognition and support of the governments, and have the various work for the establishment, publicity and organization of implementation of the system of public notice on charges done down-to-earth under the unified leadership of the governments. Experiences shall be summed up in time to positively probe into new forms and measures for public notice on charges, and various matching measures shall be improved to ensure the effect of the public notice.

III. The scope for implementation of the system of public notice on charges. The system of public notice shall be applied to all the administrative charges that are set down in accordance with the power and procedure for examination and approval.

IV. In the implementation of the system of public notice, ways including setting up public notice columns or bulletin boards, price lists or books, or electronic display screens, electronic touch screens, etc., may be taken. The columns of public notice on charges (including bulletin boards, electronic display screens, electronic touch screens, etc., the same hereinafter) of all the entities shall be set up permanently in a fixed charging place or communities, and other places that are convenient for the reading of the mass people. The public notice may also be made through newspapers, televisions, or broadcast and other forms.

V. The main contents for public notice on charges shall include: charging items, charging standards, charging basis (including the approval organs and the number of the documents), and charging scope, entities calculating the charges, and the telephone number for complaints, etc..

VI. As the entities for supervision of the setting up of the columns of public notice on charges, the competent price departments shall strengthen examination on the contents of the public notice on charges to ensure the accuracy and completion of the contents thereof. The competent price departments at all levels shall, in combination with the work of public notice on charges, organize an overall clean-up on charges of the relevant departments, so as to ensure that the items and standards publicized by each entity correspond with the charging license or the provisions of the relevant documents, prohibiting such acts of arbitrary charges as charging exceeding one's authority or exceeding the prescribed standards, or charging on items set down arbitrarily to be legalized through public notice.

VII. The columns of public notice on charges shall be made by the public notice entities in accordance with the specifications or styles prescribed by the competent price departments, who shall then make regulation in light of the local reality and in accordance with the requirements for dynamic management, long-term placement and the clarity and convenience. The columns shall be placed separately if it is possible, with distinct location, correct letterform, and measure up to the standards. The charging entities subordinate to the Central Government shall follow the principle of territory.

VIII. Where conditions including the adjustment of policies, or damage to the public notice columns, or illegible handwritings, etc., occur, the entities which set up the public notice columns shall renew the relevant contents in time, or make maintenance or alteration on the public notice columns. The competent price departments at all levels shall do a good job for communicating and passing the policies and information, and strengthen the dynamic administration on the work of public notice.

IX. The competent price departments at all levels shall publicize the charging items and charging standards reserved through news media to the general public after the clean-up. And the cities above the county level shall finish the work for the set-up of columns of public notice on charges before the end of the year 2004.

The public notice on prices and charges involving agriculture, educational charges and the price of medical treatment services shall still be implemented in accordance with the relevant provisions.

X. All the localities shall, through news media, make great efforts in publicizing the great significance of the overall implementation of the system of public notice on charges, the outstanding achievements made, and the good experiences and practices of implementation of the system of public notice by all the localities, so as to gain the concern and support of the mass people, and guarantee the smooth implementation of the system of public notice on charges.

XI. The competent price departments of all provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Governments shall, in combination with the local circumstances, formulate specific implementation measures, and report them to this Commission in time the experiences, practices, and the problems encountered in the overall implementation of the system of public notice on charges.